Columnist: Edward Pentin

Abuse Victims Mark One Year Anniversary of Global Abuse Summit with Protest
Victims say there's been insufficient progress in making meaningful changes. group of clerical abuse survivors gathered in Rome on Feb. 21, one year after the Vatican summit of bishops on ...

Cardinal Sarah: The Priesthood ‘Is In Mortal Danger’
Cardinal Robert Sarah has made a further impassioned plea not to weaken the mandatory celibacy rule for priests, saying it would be a catastrophe that would amount to an “attack ...

WATCH: Munich Protest Requests ‘Clarity and Coherence’ From Pope Francis, German Bishops
https://www.facebook.com/michael.matt.733/videos/1522958344519475/ Lay faithful from around the world stood for an hour in silent prayer in the center of the Bavarian city of Munich today to ask Pope Francis and Germany’s ...

The Book Scrubbing Controversy
The book’s rollout caused a backlash against Benedict appearing as co-author of the book, even though it appears the Pope Emeritus had given at least tacit prior approval for the ...

The Political Pan-Amazon Synod?
A set of ideological presuppositions, derived from the political left and also rooted in some strands of liberation theology, informed both the synodal discussions and the synod’s final document. The ...

Ousted Bolivian President Reportedly Chief Promoter of Pachamama at Amazon Synod
Edward Pentin has tweeted that Evo Morales, the recently ousted president of Bolivia, was a major promoter of including the Pachamama idols in the Amazon synod. Francis reportedly met with ...

Pachamama: No Stranger to the United Nations
Is the Vatican using Pachamama to advance a broader United Nations agenda? The United Nations Environment Programme published a children’s textbook in 2002 interestingly entitled Pachamama — a course on ...

10 German Dioceses Push for Major Changes During Upcoming ‘Synodal Path’
Now that the Pan-Amazonian Synod is over, attention is turning to the German bishops’ “synodal path” whose latest development is the publication of a joint letter from vicars general representing 10 ...

Amazon Tribal Chief Concerned Synod Promotes Ideology of ‘Primitivism’
An Amazon tribal chief told a Rome conference during the Synod that a "dictatorship" of missionary workers teaching liberation theology has sought to prevent development in the region, thus keeping ...

Austrian Catholic: Why I Threw Pachamama Statues into the Tiber
Alexander Tschugguel, a 26-year-old Austrian Catholic convert from Lutheranism who has worked for the pro-life movement in his country, revealed himself Nov. 4 to be the person behind throwing the ...

Pan Amazon or Pistoia Synod?
Perhaps for fear of Cardinals Brandmüller, Müller, and Burke, and not to prove Bishop Athanasius Schneider right, the Vatican judged it prudent to remove the Pachamama statue from the closing ...

How an Amazon Pagan Rite Brought 48 Years of Demonic Torment, Until Christ Freed Me
A former victim of a syncretistic religious ceremony in Brazil warns, “The Church must be very clear about the occult influences that form the basis of many of these native ...

Pro-Abortion Ford Foundation Major Funder of Key Synod Organizations
The Register has learned that organizations belonging to REPAM, which has held the primary role in organizing the synod’s proceedings, have received millions of dollars in grants from the U.S ...

The Mysterious Resignation of Vatican Police Commander Giani
Publicly, the reason for his "resignation" was a consequence of the leaking of the names of five suspended Vatican officials, but sources tell the Register it was actually triggered by ...

Women’s Diaconate, Amazonian ‘Mass’ Discussed in Synod’s Opening Days
A diaconate for women, an experimental liturgical rite and the ordination of married men in remote areas have been some of the suggestions so far discussed at the Synod of ...

Group Releases Propositions Challenging ‘Unacceptable’ Elements of Synod Working Doc
A group of bishops, priests and Catholic faithful from around the world, who wish to remain nameless because of what they call a “climate of intimidation” in the Church, have signed four ...

Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider: Two Courageous Prelates Willing to Defend the One True Faith
A majority of today's Bishops will be called to account for their silence in the midst of crisis Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider have issued a statement asserting ...

Cardinal Burke, Bishop Schneider Announce Crusade of Prayer and Fasting
Citing “serious theological errors and heresies” in the Amazon Synod’s working document, they call on the faithful to pray and fast for 40 days to prevent such errors being approved ...

Questions Persist About Vatican Finances, Real Estate
By October 2016, two years into his term as prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy, Cardinal George Pell had become aware of a Vatican dicastery handling large amounts ...

Secret Meeting of Bishops Aims At Changing Church Teaching Via Amazon Synod
A group of cardinals and bishops who are involved with the preparation of the Amazon synod and who back the abolition of priestly celibacy and other progressive positions contrary to ...

Steve Bannon Predicts Crisis in the Church Will Worsen, Laity Needs to Act
President Donald Trump’s former strategic adviser predicts an “existential crisis of trust” in the Church will worsen, especially if Pope Francis fails to dialogue with those he considers to be ...